The Alcohol Education and Research Council website http://www.aerc.org.uk/index.html Nurses help prevent future hazardous consumption while caring for injured drinkers - A PDF Report from Drug and Alcohol Findings http://www.aerc.org.uk/index.html Due to the success of the AERC web news section, the archive has now got it's own page. http://www.aerc.org.uk/webNewsArchive.html An exploratory study of problem drinkers in Finland has tested a practical method of identifying in advance those therapists most likely to retain clients. A PDF Report from Drug and Alcohol Findings. http://www.aerc.org.uk/index.html MEN accused of assaulting their partners face being banned from drinking alcohol, under a radical plan to tackle the rising tide of domestic abuse. In an attempt to sever the link between drinking and violence in the home, police and prosecutors are set to seek alcohol consumption bail orders, which would mean accused individuals having to turn up at police stations for regular alcohol tests. Reported in The Scotsman. http://www.aerc.org.uk/index.html The Manifesto Club is launching a campaign Against the Booze Bans and the Hyperregulation of Public Space. http://www.aerc.org.uk/index.html Drug & Alcohol Findings update: We already have strategies that can promote responsible service of alcohol. http://www.aerc.org.uk/index.html Two-thirds of Scots believe ministers are acting unfairly by pushing up the price of alcohol for everyone. http://www.aerc.org.uk/index.html The AERC Annual Report for the years 2007/2008 is now available as a PDF. http://www.aerc.org.uk/aboutReports.html Latest AERC Studentship grant holders have been added to the site. http://www.aerc.org.uk/grantsCrntStud.html Findings Effectiveness Bank Bulletin: Universal screening for alcohol problems in primary care fails in Denmark and is no longer on UK agenda. http://www.aerc.org.uk/index.html Pubs are in trouble for cheap drinks. But ever more is being sunk at home. http://www.aerc.org.uk/index.html Alcohol Concern has just published a new report into the limitations of the alcohol regulatory regime. In the report Alcohol Concern says that the long standing agreement between the government and the alcohol trade associations is failing to safeguard the public. http://www.aerc.org.uk/index.html This study is a PDF document which provides a comprehensive analysis of the cost- effectiveness of interventions to reduce the burden of harm associated with alcohol misuse in Australia. The key findings suggest that all the prevention interventions modelled are more cost-effective in reducing alcohol-related harm than those that treat alcohol dependence. http://www.aerc.org.uk/index.html A wild mammal closely resembling the earliest primates is drinking palm beer on a daily basis since maybe millions of years. Nevertheless, this Malaysian treeshrew is never drunk. This suggests a beneficial effect, and sheds a whole new light on the evolution of human alcoholism. In the renowned scientific journal PNAS an international team led by German biologists Frank Wiens and Annette Zitzmann from the University of Bayreuth explains the details of the first recorded chronic alcohol intake in the wild. http://www.aerc.org.uk/index.html In the 2003 Licensing Act, the Government severed the link between pubs and the criminal justice system by transferring licensing powers from magistrates to councils, and now wonders why public houses do not keep better order. http://www.aerc.org.uk/index.html In Safe. Sensible. Social: next steps in the national alcohol strategy, the Department of Health committed to commission an independent review of the relationship between alcohol price, promotion and harm. This Phase 1 report is a comprehensive summary of international evidence. http://www.aerc.org.uk/index.html Alcohol is openly for sale once more in Baghdad. All over the Iraqi capital, drink stores, which closed their doors in early 2006 when sectarian strife was raging, have slowly begun to reopen. http://www.aerc.org.uk/index.html Beer and wine bottles should carry graphic images of diseased livers similar to campaigns featured on cigarette boxes in an effort to curb the country's alcohol abuse, the British Medical Association (BMA) will propose this week. http://www.aerc.org.uk/index.html The first meeting of the Science Group of the European Alcohol and Health Forum was held in Brussels on June 30th. http://www.aerc.org.uk/index.html More than 100 people in the east end of Glasgow are to be given one-to-one help to beat alcohol addiction. http://www.aerc.org.uk/index.html Health Minister, Michael McGimpsey has challenged the Drinks Industry to work with his Department and other agencies to tackle the growing problem of young people’s drinking. http://www.aerc.org.uk/index.html Motorists in Britain are among the worst offenders in Europe for drink-driving, a new study suggests. http://www.aerc.org.uk/index.html Cancer Research UK have created an online Alcohol Tracker widget for iGoogle users. http://www.aerc.org.uk/index.html The Government’s attempt to reduce alcohol-related disorder by introducing 24-hour drinking has failed dismally, according to a survey. http://www.aerc.org.uk/index.html We've integrated five major alcohol article search tools into one. http://www.aerc.org.uk/librarySearch.html We've had a major site re-design, why not take a look? http://www.aerc.org.uk/index.html Not In Front Of The Children – Child Protection And Advertising. http://www.aerc.org.uk/libraryInsights.html Awareness of unit content of self poured drinks by UK adults: a useful intervention tool? http://www.aerc.org.uk/libraryInsights.html Not In Front Of The Children – Child Protection And Advertising. An investigation by Alcohol Concern. http://www.aerc.org.uk/libraryReports.html Practical Demonstration of Personal Daily Consumption Limits: A Useful Intervention Tool to Promote Responsible Drinking Among UK Adults? http://www.aerc.org.uk/libraryReports.html This years priorities for applications http://www.southerns.net/clients/aerc/index.html